The revelation last month that a CIA drone strike in Pakistan had killed an American hostage has reawakened a long-running debate on whether the intelligence agency should be in the drone business at all, or if such lethal strikes are best left to...

My grandmother, mother, me and my daughter are steps in a maternal staircase. Like many women, I wonder at the DNA winding through the generations that hold traits of adventure and endurance as well as flaws of pride and impulsiveness, and...